The Unifying Aspects of Cultures
SECTION:
The Mountain and Cultural Aesthetic
Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions
to:
Email: Charles
I. Armstrong
> Speakers
ABSTRACT: This session will explore the place of mountains
within social and cultural frames and aesthetic ideologies, ranging
across film, drama, poetry and philosophy. It will do this with
reference to the perception and re-creation of mountains in cultures
including nineteenth-century England, twentieth-century America
and postcolonial Australia.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SECTIONS
Contributors will include the following, and others to be confirmed:
- Charles Armstrong: "Under Ben Bulben": The Mountain
of Myth over Yeats' Dead Body / University of Bergen [ABSTRACT]
- Marit Berge: Mountains and Ibsen: Brandt and When
we Dead Awaken / University of Bergen [ABSTRACT]
- Fredrik Brogger: Cathedrals of God: John Muir and The
Mountains in California / University of Tromsø
- Asbjørn Grønstad: Mountains and western film
ideology / University of Bergen
- Mihaela Irimia: "… to me / High mountains are a
feeling" / University of Bucharest [ABSTRACT]
- Ruben Moi: Glenn Patterson's 'Black Night at Thunder Mountain'
/ University of Bergen
- Charles Moseley: 'Get thee up into an high mountain': The
English Lake District as virtual landscape / Hughes Hall, Cambridge [ABSTRACT]
- Jem Poster: Wordsworth and Mountains / Oxford University
- Anne Holden Rønning: Mythological Mountain Culture
/ University of Bergen [ABSTRACT]
- Matthias Schubnell: Native American mountains / University
of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
- Stuart Sillars: 'The Mountain's brow illumin'd': Turner and
the ideology of the mountain / University of Bergen
- Ulrike Spring & Johan Schimanski: Austro-Hungarian and
Other Mountains in Arctic Discourse [ABSTRACT]
- Clive Wilmer: Mountains in Miniature: The Holistic Thought
of John Ruskin / Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge [ABSTRACT]